As I’ve done for the past two years, I’m participating in Inktober. My friend Tom and I split the days by evens and odds, since neither of us has the time to do a drawing every day. This year, as the title states, I’m doing evens. Continue reading “Inktober 2019: The Evens”
Merrily
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Last weekend I moved to another apartment. While my old neighborhood wasn’t terrible, there were things about my former apartment my wife and I had grown tired of over the past two years. We were on the third floor with no elevator, and the rooms were ungodly hot during the summer months. The laundry machine downstairs never seemed to work. Snow plows would trap our car in during winter, and the groundskeepers rarely shoveled. The garbage truck would wake me up at 6AM. We had a package stolen. These are all “first-world problems,” of course, but now that I’m in much better financial straits, we decided to move. Continue reading “Merrily”
Notable Mention
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I haven’t been on Twitter so much lately. It often feels like a place for people to air their grievances, and too much of that isn’t good for my mental well being. But once in a while I receive welcome news from there. Continue reading “Notable Mention”
Energy
onAlthough the Myers-Briggs assessment has fallen out of favor for the Big 5, I’ve derived a lot of personal insight from knowing I’m an INTJ. In recent days I’ve found myself revisiting the nuances of my type in order to understand how I cope with stress. Continue reading “Energy”
Rolon and the Rolling Blackouts
onMy wife and I went down to NY this weekend to celebrate my 28th birthday with friends. I wanted to eat ramen as that’s become a favorite of mine, but soon after we were seated at Yama Ramen, the power went out. We waited for Tom, who accidentally went to another eatery, to meet us there. When we learned that much of midtown Manhattan had also blacked out, we went for the restaurant Tom had just left in the hopes of dining on ramen there. We arrived at Ippudo and made a reservation–and then the power went out! Upon realizing this blackout would only get bigger we chose to head for the subway tunnels, until Tom realized that we may get stuck underground if the railcars stopped running. My wife ordered a cab at this point, and the five of us chipped in for a ride back to Queens. We arrived at a restaurant my friend Noelle recommended. This place did not have ramen, so I ordered katsu instead. One pork dish later, we headed for my friend Leslie’s house and proceeded to drink until yelling and playing video games and swearing ourselves to sleep.
Happy birthday to me 🙂
Mid Year Jolt
onI went out to Long Island last weekend with my friend, Tom. We spent a couple nights in a tick-riddled home in the middle of Southold, where a bulldog next door kept rushing at us with friendly intent. The weather was sunny during the day, and mostly clear at night. We traveled to the local observatory, and I got to see Jupiter through a telescope for the first time. The purpose of our trip was a creative retreat, a respite from the business of lives that otherwise do not pause without intervention. Continue reading “Mid Year Jolt”
Warming up in D.C.
onMy wife and I spent last week at the nation’s capital in Washington DC. Like most vacations, we didn’t rest as much as we walked around tourist sites and ate lots more food than we needed. My favorite site there will always be the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Fun fact: growing up, I wanted to be an astronomer. Continue reading “Warming up in D.C.”
Creative Retreat
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For the second week in June, my friend Tom and I will be on a two-day hideout somewhere on Long Island. We’ll be in an AirBnB far away from anything I’m familiar with. There’s an observatory nearby, and if skies are clear those nights, we’ll be able to look through their telescope and into the heavens. Continue reading “Creative Retreat”
The Bog
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It’s been a while! Not so long a while that it seems I’ve given up blogging entirely, but long enough to suggest I’ve got a few things going on, or maybe too few things going on. Let’s see… Continue reading “The Bog”
